abducens nerve
Cranial nerve that runs to the eye muscles. [ http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0471209627&isbn=1/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abducens_nerve ]
Synonyms: nervus abducens [VI], abducens nerve tree, sixth cranial nerve, lateral rectus nerve, abducens VI nerve, nervus abducens, abducens nerve [VI], abducent nerve [VI]
Term info
- BM:Pons-VIN
- VHOG:0000697
- NCIT:C12665
- GAID:824
- MBA:710
- EHDAA2:0000103
- TAO:0000310
- ZFA:0000310
- FMA:50867
- BIRNLEX:876
- neuronames:550 (BIRNLEX:876)
- UMLS:C0000741 (ncithesaurus:Abducens_Nerve)
- EMAPA:18216
- Wikipedia:Abducens_nerve
- HBA:9325
- MESH:D000010
- BAMS:VIn
- AAO:0010471
- XAO:0003093
- SCTID:180941005
- UMLS:C0000741 (BIRNLEX:876)
- MA:0001087
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas
Somatic motor nerve which bifurcates innervating m. rectus lateralis and m. retractor bulbi (eye muscles).[AAO]
We conclude this section by listing some of the many synapomorphies of craniates, including (...) (5) cranial nerves (...) (reference 1); Phylogenetically, the cranial nerves are thought to have evolved from dorsal and ventral nerves of a few anterior spinal nerves that became incorporated into the braincase. Dorsal and ventral nerves fuse in the trunk but not in the head, and they produce two series: dorsal cranial nerves (V, VII, IX, and X) and ventral cranial nerves (III, IV, VI, and XIII) (reference 2).[well established][VHOG]
Homologous abducens nerves are found in all vertebrates except lampreys and hagfishes.[WP] It controls the movement of a single muscle, the lateral rectus muscle of the eye, in humans. In most other mammals it also innervates the musculus retractor bulbi, which can retract the eye for protection
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Abducens_nerve1.png
CN-VI, nerve VI, abducents VI nerve, abducent nerve, nervus abducens, abducens nerve/root, cranial nerve VI
uberon
UBERON:0001646
Abducens nerve, abducens nerve
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
Term relations
- cranial nerve and innervates some extra-ocular muscle and extends_fibers_into some abducens nucleus
- cranial nerve
- ectoderm-derived structure
- develops from some basal plate metencephalon
- only in taxon some Gnathostomata
- innervates some extra-ocular muscle
- extends_fibers_into some abducens nucleus